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Hi India stands by report on US team's
meeting with Narendra Modi
Monday April 01, 2013 05:39:21 PM,
IANS
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Chicago:
An ethnic Indian newspaper here says it stands by its report that
organisers of the US delegation to India that met Gujarat Chief
Minister Narendra Modi had canvassed for participants in the trip
at prices ranging from $3,000 to $16,000.
"Hi India published the article on the basis of factual
information available to it from various sources," said Hemant
Brahmbhatt, publisher of the Chicago based newspaper which
published a report on the US Congressional delegation's visit to
India, in a statement.
These included a copy of the official invitation sent out by the
National Indian American Public Policy Institute (NIAPPI) as well
as a news conference addressed by its founder, Shalabh Kumar, a
Chicago businessman, he said asserting "the story was published in
keeping with the best traditions of responsible journalism."
The trip has been mired in controversy since the publication of
the Hi India report that the organisers had canvassed in the
Indian American community for participants in the trip that
included four US members of the House of Representatives, all
Republicans.
The US delegation, including Congress members Marlin Stutzman,
Cyntia Wiederspahn, Cathy Rodgers and Aaron Schock, met Modi, who
has been denied a US visa for his alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat
riots, in Ahmedabad March 28 and invited him to visit the US.
Brahmbhatt said the paper "also drew on our own interviews,
records available with the federal and state regulatory
authorities, and our own reporting of the 2012 American
presidential election campaign."
"We believe this report was in the public interest, and especially
concerned those who are citizens of the United States," he said
adding, the report, as it appeared in Hi India, was restricted to
issues which we think are of interest to American readers.
"This included the itinerary and charges for Indian Americans
going on the trip, the record of the political action committees
founded by Mr. Shalabh Kumar and the introduction of issues
connected to Gujarat's electoral politics into an Illinois race
for the United States Congress," he said.
Brahmbhatt said they had "no comment" on media reports that
"Kumar's lawyers are looking into the possibility of filing a
defamation suit against Hi India. We will cross that bridge when
we come to it."
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